The Jetsons would disagree.
Posted on 03/17/2016 9:19:06 AM PDT by C19fan
As minimum wages across the country rise and restaurants face increased labor costs, one fast food CEO is thinking about replacing human workers with robots. Carl's Jr. head honcho Andy Puzder wants to open a new restaurant concept that's "employee-free," reports Business Insider.
Puzder was inspired by a visit to Eatsa, the futuristic San Francisco-born restaurant where patrons order via tablet and retrieve their food from automated cubbies. He believes the idea of a restaurant free of social interaction could be especially appealing to millennials, noting that young people seem particularly fond of ordering from kiosks over humans.
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If it can flip a burger it can wipe a table. And we already have robot vacuum cleaners in American homes, the jump to mopping won’t be too tough.
The Jetsons would disagree.
I don’t want this because the only socializing I do is with the girls at fast food joints (nice girls, here).
We don’t have them here, but I have found that the people in the places we do have are almost always friendly, and the orders are usually right. The oil boom here brought wages up for folks in the fast food industry, and I’m sure they are trying to keep their jobs and business, now that the boom has died.
Would that include Hardee’s?
The fast food workers here in Hurst, TX are awesome. Don’t know what it is but they are friendly and efficient. None of the “I’m just passing through, pal” baloney. Yet they don’t seem like losers who won’t go on to better things, either. They get a robotization waiver per moi.
Chick Fil A as a chain is the absolute platinum standard when it comes to customer service in the fast food industry, at least for a chain of its size. I have never, ever had bad customer service at a Chick Fil A anywhere in the country.
Eliminate dine in option. Either drive thru or walk up. Here in Seattle we have a burger chain (Dick’s) that has no indoor seating, and Domino’s has a lot of Pizza Storefronts that do not offer dine in. This lowers the cost of the footprint for the store as well.
Sooo... he means he wants to open an Automat ?
Hasn’t that been done ?
We are going to have about 100 million low skill people who have no hope of employment.
You watch, California will attempt to ban robots in these types of service sector jobs...
Leftist economics have severely reduced the number of real jobs, or given them to non-Americans. Burger flipping is now the only job left that is open to out of work people. After replacing those jobs with robots, there will be very few people earning a salary. Where will be customers come from?
Will the only people working be lawyers and politicians? Who will pay their salaries? other lawyers and politicians?
“Eliminate dine in option.”
And instantly eliminate business with reliable dine-on customers like me, who eat in at quick service restaurants two or three times a day. And large breakfast and lunch gatherings also.
The “world” knows it could never beat the USA in war. The only way to beat the USA is economically. Once the USA has been reduced to a third world economy the military will be but a paper tiger. The process is almost completed. Trump is spoiling everything.
Same here.
The only problem with them (and Starbucks) is their own success. I see the drive-thru packed at most times and just say “Forget it”. Don’t even feel like fighting the parking lot to walk in.
I noticed the same thing here and was impressed at the work ethic on display. It all comes down to management ethos.
Looking back at my years in the food business it’s the tough managers who I remember teaching me the most. Most of them were natural hard-arses and felt NO guilt demanding performance (and firing unwilling workers). Nothing worse for morale than a wimpy boss.
Picking food up from automated “cubbies” I assume that means some kind of cubbyhole.
Everything old is new again. Something like this was done in NYC in the 30s or 40s. It was called the Automat and several of them were still operating in the 50s when I visited NYC. You went down a line like a buffet line and picked your food out of ‘cubbies’ that dispensed prepared dishes not unlike a candy vending machine.
Man you don't understand millennials.
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